Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AUSTIN Windsor...
With her guard held high, the Duchess of Windsor charged out of the neutral corner where she had stood fast for two decades after marrying Britain's newly abdicated ex-King Edward VIII in 1937. Occasion: McCall's magazine this week began publishing her serialized autobiography, This Is My Side of the Story, which the duchess contends she wrote all by herself. In her "simple story," the Baltimore-bred duchess, after confessing that "no one has ever accused me of being an intellectual," rolls off into her halcyon childhood memoirs, interspersed with some harsh looks in the mirror...
Died. George Kite, 58, royal chimney sweep, whose firm of Kite & Sons, founded by his grandfather (who swept for Queen Victoria) and continued by his father (who swept for Edward VII), held the royal warrant for sweeping Windsor Castle's 300 chimneys; of pneumonia; in Windsor, England. With a staff of three (including his son, who will continue the family trade), Kite also swept Eton College and the Queen Mother's royal lodge...
...King George III (of Revolutionary War fame) was already showing such symptoms of future dottiness as screaming, "View Halloo!" at morning prayers and greeting oak trees as old friends in Windsor Park. Queen Charlotte and her eldest son were already jockeying for power as Regent. Prinney threaded a delicate path between the beckonings of his secret wife and his demanding and increasingly shrewish mistress. Caroline publicly boasted of her taste in "bedfellows," and soon turned up with an "adopted" son called "Willikins" who was widely said to be her own. "Prove it and he shall be your King!" she would...
...shopping expedition in Windsor, Britain's bonnie Prince Charles, 7, along with five-year-old Princess Anne, in the tow of a royal nanny, rummaged about a gift shop "to buy a secret Christmas present for Mummy." His gift for Queen Elizabeth II: a miniature watercolor of Mummy herself, caparisoned in the full-dress uniform of a colonel of the Grenadier Guards, sitting sidesaddle on a chestnut horse named Winston. Among the little Princess' selections: a watercolor showing her namesake, Queen Anne, attending the Ascot Races some 250 years...